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16 hours ago, slikmar said:
Saw this today. I have commented on Chalamet and how impressed I was with his acting in this and his other parts, let me also give equal voice to Zendaya who conveys a lot with just her face and eyes through the movie and is also playing a much different character then we have seen, as well. As MH said, not a light movie, but I think well done. There are changes I am not sure I am happy with from the book, but I think they are a result of modern times. The very fanaticism of religion shown in this movie, to me, is enhanced from the original book and didnt really make its appearance till the 2nd book on originally, though granted has been over 30+ years since I read the original.
I read the first book between Part I and II and I discovered that I'd forgotten how important the fanaticism was to the plot. Paul spends a significant amount of time and energy trying to avert the inevitable jihad.
That said, there was a lot less open worship of Paul in the book. In the movie there's so much rapturous "Lisan al-Gaib!" that it's become a meme.
QuoteI don't mind this change, but it is a change. I do wonder what the implications are for Part III, since I haven't read Messiah yet.
QuoteFinally, the cinematography is fantastic and they way they show scale when dealing with the ships, or even toward the end Paul walking through a crowd is impressive. It started early in the first movie with you watching the people loading a giant ship, this flying to a much larger ship and then finally this mite of a ship being loaded onto the star spanning one. They do something similar in this with one of the spice harvesters, where you see the men in armor walking next to it from a distance and they might as well be ants.
Villeneuve is a brilliant cinematographer. Every frame of the movie could be printed and mounted on a wall. Blade Runner 2049, Arrival, and Sicario were likewise.
If you want to see a jarring directorial change, watch the Villeneuve-directed Sicario and then watch its not-Villeneuve-directed sequel.
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1 hour ago, Pariah said:
And Bo Nix might very well have been available later ... but after watching five quarterbacks go in the first 11 picks - including the aforementioned Michael Penix Jr. - if that's the guy you want, can you really take that chance?
Nope, I guarantee Vegas would have taken Nix if Denver hadn't. Because...
2 hours ago, unclevlad said:6 QBs, 7 WRs, 8 OTs and 1 center. 4 edge rushers, 1 DT, 1 DE, and 3 CBs. And 1 TE...guess who did this one. (Prisco gave it a C.)
...they obviously had no plan for both Nix and Penix being unavailable, so they panicked and drafted a third TE. With the 13th overall pick. My Raiders do not disappoint!
What they should have done was flip the script and picked up one of the elite defensive players that were still on the board as a result of the QB run. If you have to go into 2024 with AOC under center, build around Maxx Crosby and make a truly fearsome defense. If we can't score, no one will! Oh well, missed opportunities.
QuoteThe strangest single move to me...Atlanta. Penix? After signing Cousins to a megadeal that basically runs the entire period of Penix' rookie deal?
I actually kind of understand this after a season of Desmond Ridder and Taylor Heinicke. Problem is with both Cousins and Penix on the roster they won't be able to afford any other players.
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Yeah I don't need to see or hear Goodell. Hard part is finding a tracker that doesn't have a delay.
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Draft day! Belatedly catching up on the rumors. There seems to be a lot of interest in the QBs that are available, so it wouldn't surprise me to see a lot of reaching for the 4-6 rated candidates. Loss Vegas needs a QB and wants Daniels pretty badly--he has familiarity with Antonio Pierce--but he's almost certainly going to the Commies at 2. We'll probably wind up reaching for Penix which would be the most Raidersy mistake possible. (I prefer my QBs to come equipped with ACLs.). Meanwhile the Vikings are said to be aggressively looking to move up with either the Pats at 3 (who need a QB themselves) or the Chargers at 5 (who need a lot of picks to rebuild their entire offense). Denver is said to be "keeping its options open" which to me sounds like "hoping a QB falls to them". Not that they can do much else--they just don't have the draft capital. (Or even real capital since they're still paying for Russ.).
As for the NGD teams that are set at QB--the Bungles badly needed a WR even before Tee Higgins requested a trade; the JAGs should probably draft an actual offensive lineman lest Trevor Lawrence's beautiful face gets marred; and the Seahawks should do likewise in order to give Sam Howell a real shot.
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2 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:
I thought of that too. Honestly, I don't think there's any outcome that will lead to a clean win.
I'll settle for any outcome in which America does not descend into a fascist hellscape.
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For the same reason 80% of movies are franchises, I assume.
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2 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:
Impasse reached. I'll be moving on.
By definition one cannot move on through an impasse.
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3 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:
Donald Trump is a unique phenomenon.
My turn to disagree.
Yes, Trump has no heir apparent. But neither is he unique. The circumstances that created him--extreme wealth inequality, a corrupt boardroom class, and a frightened, undereducated population--will still exist if Trump leaves power. Sure, there will be a lull while the MAGA base and the oligarchy find another demagogue to rally around. But they inevitably will, unless something is done about the conditions that ultimately drove Trump's rise to power.
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13 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said:
I don't think so. Abbott, DeSantis, Carlson, have tried to co-opt the MAGA message, but have failed outside their bailiwicks. MAGA coalesced around Donald Trump, his image, his reputation, his inexplicable but undeniable charisma. People who think and feel like them have clearly long been part of American society, but Trump catalyzed them. They're as chaotic as Trump himself, with no unifying organization to speak of. I believe that without him they'll become like bees without the queen, satellites that lose their planet.
We used to worry about someone who employed Trump's methods but was smarter and saner than him. The problem with all the more competent pretenders to Trump's throne is that they're too sane. For MAGA, crazy is the selling point. They revel in the irrationality, the paranoia, the chaos that Trump fosters. Others can try to imitate him, but they can never replace him. Like Elvis.
Yes, but their attempts to co-opt the MAGA message have occurred while Trump was still directing it. If Trump is convicted, and especially if he's in solitary confinement with no access to Xitter, the faithful will desperately cast about for someone else to tell them what to think. Not that I think Trump will ever see the inside of a jail cell, but that's what it'd take to put an end to the cult of personality.
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3 hours ago, Asperion said:
Speculation: What will those who are being supported by Trump do on the extremely high possibility that he fails the upcoming election and is found guilty in this current criminal trial?
I'm sure the Heritage Foundation has a contingency plan. The oligarchs aren't going to leave that to chance.
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5 hours ago, unclevlad said:
I like the navy, myself.
But Denver is landlocked.
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Sounds like the Broncos are trading for a QB: the mighty Zach Wilson.
Maybe they'll be able to reuse the Russell Wilson jerseys.
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1 hour ago, Pariah said:
So, I've had a bit to ruminate upon the Broncos' new uniform set, seen (mostly) below:
I like them. They're clean, they're distinctive, and they don't have the accursed side stripes on the jerseys. I wish they had striped socks, or socks that didn't make the lower half look like a leotard, but I guess you can't have everything. I'm also a little perplexed at the lack of a center helmet stripe, but that's not too big a deal.
Perhaps best of all: A full Orange Crush throwback!
See, those socks are awesome!
Overall, four out of five stars.
These are actually pretty nice. My biggest suggestion would be replacing the dark navy with more of a royal blue, as in the throwbacks.
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Yeah, that's just blue and really dark orange.
When I own an NFL franchise, the colors will be turf green pants with football brown jerseys. That have football seam patterns scattered all over them.
And disco ball helmets.
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Blue and orange is a ghastly color combination regardless.
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Take a look to the sky just before you die
It's the last time you will
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You could add cruelty and suffering to that list.
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I can't wait to see how the Raiders will screw it up this year!
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14 hours ago, Ragitsu said:
Appalling. So much for respecting your roots...
MBAs appear to be specifically trained to disregard 'roots' and other inconvenient distractions* in favor of perceiving the world in terms of ROI.
* Such as reality.
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2 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:
The legal standard of whether a "reasonable person" would believe propaganda is not adequate. There are clearly no few unreasonable people in the world, and propaganda can do great harm to them, and to those around them.
There's a point at which propaganda crosses the line into threats or stochastic terrorism, and that's usually fairly easy to spot. But it's much harder to draw a line between spin and lies.
NFL 2024-25
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That article doesn't even make sense. Best case scenario is they pay Cousins $50M and take a $50M cap hit, and that's if he doesn't play a single snap. And it doesn't even mention what Penix costs.
From what I read, Falcons fandom is less than thrilled with the pick--why draft a QB with that injury history to back up another QB with an injury history?